Referees/Officials 2017/18 performances

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Guardiola BT interview last night:

"Is the same from the last game against united, 78 mins, the most incredible penalty I've ever seen in my life, and Martin Atkinson didn't want to whistle"

"I didn't insult him, I just said it was a goal. I said the pass came form Milner, so it couldn't be offside... He’s a referee, he likes to feel different, he’s special. When everybody sees things, he's going to see the opposite... It's difficult when Salah's goal at Anfield is offside and it's different when Gabriel Jesus' goal at Anfield is offside... In this competition the teams are so equal, so the influence of refereeing decisions is so important."

Well said Pep
 
There's been six potentially game changing decisions in our last three matches. Three of them penalty decisions ranging from 'nailed on' to 'open to interpretation' and three offside decisions resulting in goals either being given or disallowed. We know from replays that the offside decisions were incorrect so what's debatable is how difficult was it for the officials to make the correct decision. On the balance of logic, probability, fairness, home/away influence whatever and whichever way you want to look at it, if all those decisions were, at best 50/50, we should have got three go in our favour.
 
Cheats,cheats,cheats and utterly corrupt from fifa to eufa to the premier league ,lining their own pockets keeping their own relevant so called elite bullying clubs happy and anyone who says different is deluded.
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
I couldn't believe last week when the officials were German - 'good pals of Klop?' I thought and jokingly suggested we had Catalonian refs this week.
Was staggered to discover Spanish officials were given.... with their eyes on Pep's yellow ribbon.....
I appreciate you could argue against having a Danish or Italian etc ref as there is bound to be a Danish or Italian etc player on the pitch.... but the same as the manager is different I feel.....
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Made exactly the same point last night at the game about the Spaniard and Pep’s ribbon.
 
VAR will resolve most of the issues but still probably not a very tight offside. The rule needs to change in that there needs to be clear air between the 2 players for it to be offside. That way it will always be transparent(excuse the pun) for us all to see and will probably lead to more goals which is the purpose of the game after all.
 
hampshireblue said:
VAR will resolve most of the issues but still probably not a very tight offside. The rule needs to change in that there needs to be clear air between the 2 players for it to be offside. That way it will always be transparent(excuse the pun) for us all to see and will probably lead to more goals which is the purpose of the game after all.
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I disagree with the offside issues. There is fairly basic technology to plot a grid over the field of play to show taking into perspective whether or not a player is offside.
 
as good as we are it is IMPOSSIBLE for us ever to win the champs league with such blatant cheating corruption call it what you will. sane was called offside 7 times in the 2nd half he is not that bad as for that to possibly happen. zero added time in the 1st half otamendi was down for a minute and a half after the assault by mane and the full back who pretended the ball was burst at a throw in wasted 2 minutes and sane's goal is just unbelievable. what is the point of us fans supporting and emotionally investing in something so blatantly corrupt. everybody knows this our powerful owners included it is only them who can bring pressure to bear in the right or wrong places that can possibly bring about change. We need to be so proud of our team they have done everything they could have done for us to win this trophy
 
hampshireblue said:
VAR will resolve most of the issues but still probably not a very tight offside. The rule needs to change in that there needs to be clear air between the 2 players for it to be offside. That way it will always be transparent(excuse the pun) for us all to see and will probably lead to more goals which is the purpose of the game after all.
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Lol it will get all offsides right, I don’t see your point at all.
 
I just can't begin to understand how anyone can be so naive as to think that we've simply been ''unlucky'' with ''poor decisions'' and ''inept refereeing''

Ask yourself this.... When the authorities tried to hobble City by 'legitimate' means with FFP and they failed, do you really think they were just going to meekly skulk away with their tail between their legs and give up on the whole idea of putting City in their place?
 
The problem is that there is no accountability, they don't need to answer or explain any of their decisions, and until they do there is always going to be accusations of bias or worse corruption
 
hampshireblue said:
VAR will resolve most of the issues but still probably not a very tight offside. The rule needs to change in that there needs to be clear air between the 2 players for it to be offside. That way it will always be transparent(excuse the pun) for us all to see and will probably lead to more goals which is the purpose of the game after all.
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UEFA have already said it won’t be brought in for the UCL games anytime soon haven’t they?

No surprise, as you can’t yet bribe a piece of electrical equipment as far as I’m aware
 
VAR now! That is all.

Just frustrating the only two major competitions not to implement until 2019/20 is the Premier League and Champions League.

Every other major league has already decided the time has come already.
 
There must be some mistake here. Pep has been charged by EUFA within hours for a hasty word or two whereas the possible life threatening antics at Anfield cannot be looked at until nearly June.
 
Don Karleone said:
Not sure we've had any that completely changed the game.

Happy to eat my words if anyone can name one.
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the only 2 I can recall, is Kompany should have gone in a game, Bournemouth, but in that same game Aki should have gone and then we had sterling sent off for scoring an injury time winner and then having the audacity to celebrate.

the only other one I recall is Silva offside, v Arsenal. However, they never showed the ball leaving dinhos foot if I remember correctly. The still was the frame after it left his foot, where he looked offside. so was very questionable, although looked a mile off in real time. However, in that game sterling had a tap in at the back post and was hauled down (No foul given, no pen, no red card), so even if the silva one did go for us, the decisions against us in that game were not in our favour either...

Can anyone else remember anymore??
 
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